Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs

Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs is a researcher, photographer, and author of publications about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. She assisted her father, Stephen Ambrose, in writing Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the West, and authored The Lewis and Clark Companion; An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery, and Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off; Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail. She lives in Montana, writes for National Geographic, and is co-founder of the Lewis and Clark Trust

Author's Entries

  • Sacagawea

    Sacagawea was a member of the Agaideka (Lemhi) Shoshone, who lived in the upper Salmon River Basin in present-day Idaho. In about 1800, she was kidnapped by members of the Hidatsa tribe and taken to their homeland in the Knife River Valley, near present-day Stanton, North Dakota. A few years …

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